This Sunday, the Monkee Family was invited to travel south to Everett, WA to attend Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever! Phineas and Ferb and the rest of the Tri-State Area crew magically slide off the screen onto the stage to sing and dance to some of the boy’s most famous songs from [...]
It’s Perfect
January 15, 2012 Leave a Comment
Nothing is better than waking up early to a huge snowfall (by Vancouver standards), on a Saturday. There’s something magical about the snow in the glow of the morning sunrise. Straight from jammie’s & bedheads to snowsuits & toques. The Man woke up in time to congratulate me on my sidewalk shoveling with the [...]
It’s Official
December 27, 2011 3 Comments
Today is a day of firsts. Jackson’s first hockey tournament. Jackson’s first 7am game, which means getting up at 5:15am and trying to arrive for the game by 6:30am. Waking a sleepy non-morning monster (my gene’s there) and trying to encourage some breakfast during moans and groans of “But I need more sleep Mom”. Don’t [...]
The Worst Job As A Parent
December 12, 2011 3 Comments
It’s the chore that I detest but it must be done. Throwing out Editing the kids artwork and school work. We have scads of it. Personally, I would love to keep everything but really it’s just not realistic. Some artwork has a story too good to forget and too precious to throw away. This picture [...]
Code Red Means Someone Has A Gun Mommy
December 4, 2011 1 Comment
Does that headline shock you? Good. Because that is exactly how I felt. There was an incident in a neighboring community with a student bringing a gun or replica gun into a school. I don’t know the exact details as I/we try to catch the news without the children around. They are always around. This prompted my [...]
